StoryTitle("caps", "Antony's Eulogy On Caesar") ?>
by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lend me your ears;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The evil that men do lives after them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The good is oft interred with their bones;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If it were so, it was a grievous fault,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Brutus is an honorable man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So are they all, all honorable men—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He was my friend, faithful and just to me:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Brutus says he was ambitious;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Brutus is an honorable man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hath brought many captives home to Rome,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose ransom did the general coffers fill:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Brutus is an honorable man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You all did see that on the Lupercal", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I thrice presented him a kingly crown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, sure, he is an honorable man.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But here I am to speak what I do know.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You all did love him once, not without cause:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And men have lost their reason.—Bear with me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I must pause till it come back to me.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>